Classical Latin ; from Classical Greek Lykeion, the Lyceum: so called from the neighboring temple of Apollōn Lykeios

lyceum

noun

A hall in which public lectures, concerts, and similar programs are presented.

An organization sponsoring public programs and entertainment.

A lycée.

Origin of lyceum

Latin Lycēum, from Greek Lukeion, the name of a grove with athletic training grounds near Athens in which Aristotle taught, from Lukeios, epithet of Apollo (to whom the grove was sacred), of unknown meaning.

lyceum

From Ancient Greek Î›ÏÎºÎµÎ¹Î¿Î½ (Lukeion) (the name of a gymnasium, or athletic training facility, near Athens where Aristotle established his school), from Î›ÏÎºÎµÎ¹Î¿Ï‚ ("Lycian" or "wolf-killer").

Sentence Examples

His first appointment was as elementary mathematical master at the gymnasium and lyceum of Cremona, and he afterwards obtained a similar post at Milan.

But I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined.

We have a comparatively decent system of common schools, schools for infants only; but excepting the half-starved Lyceum in the winter, and latterly the puny beginning of a library suggested by the State, no school for ourselves.

The one hundred and twenty-five dollars annually subscribed for a Lyceum in the winter is better spent than any other equal sum raised in the town.

I did not see why the lyceum should not present its tax-bill, and have the State to back its demand, as well as the Church.